COLLEGE SPORTS: Siena Heights baseball holds off Bethel

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Mar 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM

Siena Heights, Adrian women's lacrosse teams win

By Daily Telegram staff

The Siena Heights University baseball team scored runs in each of the first four innings, and then had to hang on to post a 5-4 win over Bethel (Ind.) on Wednesday in the first game of a twinbill. The Saints were defeated in the second game by Webber International (Fla.), 5-3.

The split leaves Siena Heights at 4-3 on their southern trip.

Third baseman and cleanup hitter Joe Williams made things happen in the opening inning for the Saints as he singled home Dan Muller and then later scored on an error by the Bethel pitcher after Dennis Sharp Jr. singled.

Drew Milligan (Hudson High School) was inserted to run for Alec Duncan in the second inning after Duncan was walked. Mike Lollo hit a sacrifice fly that scored Milligan for a 3-0 Saints lead and after Bethel scored one in the top of the third, Williams again singled to lead off the bottom of the third for the Saints and came home on Sharp’s single.

Siena Heights made it 5-1 in the fourth when, again, Milligan pinch ran for Duncan and was driven home by a Lollo double.

Bethel scored single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, leaving runners at second and third as relief pitcher Ben Finn got Cam Macpherson to ground out and end the game.

Williams was 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored for the Saints while Lollo was 2-for-2 and Sharp 2-for-3. Mike Sorenson pitched the first 5 1/3 innings to earn the win, allowing one earned run on six hits with two strikeouts. Finn picked up the save.

Against Webber International, the Warriors scored a pair of unearned runs in the sixth inning, which proved to be the winners after Siena Heights had taken a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Webber scored three times in the fifth to go up 3-2 and the Saints tied it in the top of the sixth when Logan Curtis singled and was sacrificed to second by Austin Hauck. Marcus Stewart (Clinton High School) grounded out to send Curtis to third, then Travis Podolak doubled home Curtis.

Kyle Burkholder was tagged with the loss, going 5 2/3 innings allowing three earned runs on seven hits. Eric Henderson, Williams and Curtis all went 2-for-4.

Heidelberg 11, Adrian 5: At Port Charlotte, Fla., Adrian College watched a 5-4 lead after five innings disappear in the sixth as the Student Princes scored seven runs in the final four innings to notch the win. Adrian College is 1-2 on its spring trip.

The Bulldogs scored lone runs in the third and fourth innings, with Drew Shutes drawing a bases-loaded walk in the third and Sam Fischer hitting a sacrifice fly to plate Hayden Craig (Clinton High School), who led off the inning with a single.

Heidelberg scored twice in the top of the fourth, but Adrian scored three runs in its half of the fourth to take a 5-4 lead. With the bases loaded, Ryan Dorow was hit by a pitch to send R.J. Rios home and then Fischer walked with the bases full, sending Shutes home. Mitch Stefanski was later walked with nowhere to put him, plating Craig, and the Bulldogs left the bases loaded.

Shutes went 3-for-4 to lead Adrian while Stefanski and Rios were both 2-for-3 and Fischer collecting two RBIs.

Brent Greenwood started on the hill for Adrian, going four innings and giving up four earned runs on eight hits with three strikeouts. Reliever Austin Buchmayer was tagged with the loss, allowing four earned runs on five hits in 1 2/3 innings. Heidelberg collected 16 hits and all 11 of its runs were earned.

WOMEN’S LACROSSESiena Heights 26, Columbia 16: At Columbia, S.C., Erin Kehn scored eight goals with two assists and Stephannie Gonzalez added seven goals and two assists to highlight the Saints’ win over Columbia College. It was the Saints’ first win after two opening losses.

Tabitha Ferguson was credited with 13 saves for the Saints.

Also scoring goals were Aliisa Mason and Victoria Chavis with four each, and Sydney VanHoose, Sabrina Snow and Cindy Bradford all with one each, and Hoose also had two assists.

Margaret Hern had six ground balls and Samantha Skodi forced three Columbia turnovers.

Adrian 10, Sewanee (Tenn.) 9: At Sewanee, Tenn., Brianna Plester scored five goals, including an unassisted tally with 4:04 left to play to lift the Bulldogs to a season-opening win.

After yielding an opening goal to Sewanee in the first three and a half minutes of the game, Adrian would score six straight goals, the first two by Plester and then Maddie Dugan and TaShina Salas traded four goals back and forth between them for a 6-1 Bulldog lead.

Sewanee opened the second half with the first three goals to pull within one at 6-5 and after Adrian’s Christina DeSantis scored with 24:17 left, the Tigers got two goals to knot the score at 7-7. The teams were tied at 8-8 and 9-9 until Plester’s fifth goal stood up and Adrian’s defense did the rest.

Adrian was outshot by Sewanee, 27-17, but Bulldog goalie Jul Tehovnik made 14 saves. Salas also led in ground balls with five.

MEN’S LACROSSEWooster 11, Adrian 7: Despite scoring the first two goals of the game, Adrian College was defeated on the road its season opener as Wooster stayed perfect at 3-0.

Eric Fannell scored the first goal for Adrian and assisted on Mitch Burgin’s goal eight minutes later to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead. The Scots scored the only two goals of the second quarter for a 4-2 lead at halftime, and then the Bulldogs scored a goal to start the third quarter with Fannell assisting on Tom Thielman’s goal to pull Adrian within one. However, the Scots then scored four unanswered goals for an 8-3 lead.

Fannell scored three goals and Burgin two to lead Adrian, which was outshot 23-17. Doug Boyd also scored for Adrian as well as notching two assists. Kevin Lerg made 12 saves in goal for the Bulldogs. Max Groves, Drake Dailey-Chwalibog and Boys all had four ground balls.